Indiana · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,413,699 to it, the largest being INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ($2,708,047). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What United Way of South Central Indiana does
Mission
United way improves people's lives by addressing critical needs today and working to reduce those needs tomorrow. Funds are raised from a broad community base and granted to tax exempt agencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
United way of south central serves as a convener and catalyst around solving community issues within a six county region. We work closely with local agencies, including city and county officals, as well as engaging donors and volunteers. The emphasis of our focus is work with populations that are at or below the sustainable living wage guidelines. The annual fund drive supports over 50 agencies with additional efforts throughout the year that supports early childhood literacy, efforts to stem truancy and support for disaster relief. All of the efforts are consistent with the goal of creating financial stability, youth opportunities and a healthy community.
$1,606,195 spentof which $517,536 as grants$38,108 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,606,195.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $3.5M (+181%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 68% · 2023 11% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Christopher Pierce
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $91k → $249k.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $597k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Central Indiana Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 49% · 2019 52% · 2020 90% · 2021 96% · 2022 25% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $465k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $282k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$282k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,413,699 to it, the largest being INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ($2,708,047). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,413,699 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA?
- INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,708,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 35 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing